Finance Operations & Cost Intelligence Manager

The Finance Operations & Cost Intelligence Manager drives intelligent financial operations and cost transparency across cloud infrastructure and AI platform services. This role oversees the integrity of supply side-derived cost components, ensures accurate financial attribution, and develops scalable cost intelligence frameworks that support real-time financial insights.

In addition to operational oversight, this position partners with AI engineers to design and implement AI-enabled finance workflows, including the development of a holistic agentic system for finance operations built on strong financial data hygiene and structured financial datasets.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Cost Operations & Verification

• Oversee the operational review of vendor-derived cloud cost components, including compute capacity, infrastructure services, and platform-related supplier charges.
• Perform structured three-way verification between supplier purchase orders, contracts, and invoices, ensuring charges align with agreed pricing, service terms, and contracted capacity.
• Confirm the reliability and completeness of service receipts, including validation that billed cloud capacity or services were actually delivered and consumed as expected.
• Investigate billing discrepancies with vendors and internal teams to ensure accurate financial records and cost attribution.

Billing Integrity & Vendor Credit Management

• Validate invoices and credit memos associated with cloud infrastructure services and platform vendors.
• Trace, track, and reconcile the application of supplier credit memos, particularly in cases of service performance issues, overcharges, or capacity shortfalls.
• Ensure credits are properly applied to financial records and reflected in cost reporting and vendor balances.

Cost Intelligence & Allocation

• Maintain structured mapping of vendor costs into internal cost allocation frameworks.
• Perform accounting allocations that disaggregate infrastructure and service costs down to the customer or workload level, enabling accurate product and customer unit economics.
• Work with finance and analytics teams to ensure cost datasets support customer-level profitability analysis and infrastructure cost visibility.

AI-Enabled Finance and Accounting

• Implement and manage AI-assisted workflows for financial document processing, cost classification, and anomaly detection.
• Work closely with AI engineers and data teams to develop an agentic finance operations framework that automates financial review, cost attribution, and operational decision support.
• Drive the creation of AI-ready financial data infrastructure by establishing high-quality financial data hygiene and domain-informed controls.This enables trusted AI-driven financial automation with human-in-the-loop oversight, combining finance expertise with AI to build an AI-native finance function that scales with Firework’s growth.

Process Optimization & Systems

• Continuously improve finance operations processes through automation, structured data design, and workflow optimization.
• Maintain integration between vendor billing data, financial systems, and analytics tools.

Strategic Initiative Example

One of the key projects for this role is partnering with AI engineers to design a holistic agentic finance operations system, where AI agents assist with:

• financial document interpretation
• cost classification and allocation
• anomaly detection in vendor billing
• operational finance decision support

This system relies on high-quality financial data hygiene and structured financial datasets to enable reliable AI-driven automation.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor degree in Finance or Accounting
• 5 years of experience working in Finance and/or Accounting

Expertise preferred not required:

• Cost Accounting, Vendor management and Payment Operations Experience
• Tooling: Google workspace, Ramp, AI productivity tools
• CPA is preferred but not required